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Appendicula teres is an orchid species identified by Griff. in 1851. Culture information and photos for this orchid are commonly detailed under the currently accepted name of Ceratostylis subulata.
ORIGIN: Found in Thailand, Myanmar, Penninsular Malaysia, Vietnam, Borneo, Java, Sumatra, New Guinea, Solomon Islands, the Philippines and Vanuatu high up in primary montane forests at elevations of 200 to 1700 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Small sized, hot to cool growing epiphyte on mossy trees in good shade with closely tufted, terete, dark green stems enveloped basally by dry, membraneous sheaths and carrying an almost terete, broadly grooved on one side leaf tapering from the base to the apex that blooms in the early spring arising from the scarious basal bracts on very short, single flowered inflorescence with spidery hairs .
FLOWER SIZE: 0.25 inches [5 mm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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